Word: counteractions
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Second Frontling? Into the reports of fresh German concentrations in Greece, Crete and the nearby Axis islands Ankara correspondents read: 1) a Nazi threat to Turkey and the whole Near East between Suez and the Caucasus; 2) the need for an immediate Allied move in the Near East to counteract the threat. The British, choosing big, 60-year-old General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo'') Wilson to command a new independent army in Iraq and Persia, were perhaps preparing such a move...
China Will Hoard. The commodity scarcity undoubtedly still continues to lead people to hoard. Medicines today give the best chances of profits for smugglers and hoarders. The Government gives air priority from India to medicine, saying: "Three tons of quinine are worth three tons of guns." To counteract hoarding, the Government announced that American Red Cross supplies were coming in, would be dumped on the market. The Government set up quinine shops in Chungking, where quinine is sold only to patients who swallow it in the shop...
With savage shipping losses to counteract, every ounce of grain, every Brussels sprout (see col. 1) was needed to keep the nation alive. Because farm hands had been conscripted into service or lured away by higher wages in war industries, the spring labor problem was put on the narrow shoulders of Britain's moppets. They responded as heroically as they had when they were blitz messengers; as industriously as when they were waste salvagers, as enthusiastically as when they were training themselves to become future airmen and nurses...
...need now is to win the war rapidly and after the victory to counteract the "greater stratification of our society." Public education has been the chief means of reaching the latter ideal, but it is yet "far from an accomplished fact," he added...
...Wonder. "Rome will make the peace," Mussolini had said. But 1) the failure of England to fall promptly after France collapsed, and 2) the entrance of the U.S. into the war were factors that no amount of chest thumping could counteract. From a symbol of greatness Mussolini by last week had become a laughingstock to millions of Italians. His daughter, Edda Ciano, was aware of the shame, prayed for an hour each day in a Roman cathedral. Her husband, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano, appeared everywhere flanked by secret-service men. He was as bitter as the people. "No wonder...